Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-26

| leaders will eXterminate him also unless some
| Had his hide been worth a dollar there would be
| only one alive where there are now twenty. But
his flesh Is the greatest dainty the prairie affords
good all the year round 1t is tender fine grained
| exquisitely Favored and always in demand when
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
VARIOUS DorNGs OF THE PLAYER FoLK-ANNA DIcKIN.
| SON STILL ANXIOUS TO ACT-TROUBLES OF A TRACE
DIAN"-ANoTHER NEW THEATER FOR NEW YORK.
| -Erastus Wiman, who seems determined to keeI
the eyes OF the world Staten Island, proposes to
| do ''The Fall OF Babylon" on an enormous scale
| there the coming summer. The stage Is to be PSI
by 40 feet, the scenery six stories high, and the
weekly expenses $4,000.
1t is reported that Verdi proposes to close his
career with reconstruction OF comic opera
which he finished years ago amid great sorroW
and af1iction, and which OF course was then fail
ure. His purpose now is TO revive and reproduce
| IL, and give 1t a fair chance.
Mime. Judic, the sprightly French opera bouf1e
artistic who has been seriously i'll in Paris, has re-
covered
Anna Dickinson has not given up her ambi-
ton to act. She says in an interview that she
would like to act in her own play "Aurelian, "
with Wilson Barrett in the title part. She init
mates that her return to the stage soon is GER
tainty. She may start In London, where, she says
OF petty critics"
Mary Anderson proposes to make her first ap-
pearance in the roles of Hermione and Perdita, in
ShakeSpeareS 'WinterS Tale" on the bard'S birth
day, April 23d, at Birmingham, England.
Robert b. Mantell is said to contemplate
doing Romeo next season as well as Othello.
Robert L. Downing will try another New
York house next week, appearing in 'Spartacus'
at NiblO's Garden.
Fanny Davenport's young brothers, E. L. and
Harry, are playing ''M'liss' in California. Every
member OF the Davenport family is on the stage
mother, three daughters and two sons.
Clara Morris is in love with the climate on the
Pacific coast, and says she is going to purchase
ranch in Southern California, to which she can
retire for rest and recuperaton between acts. The
san Francisco papers, losing all patience with her
half-hOur waits, proposed that she ''bring her
oreoSlng-roOm on the stage and allow the public to
see what she Is doing for that length OF time"
Agnes Herndon, a slashingly vigorous &C
tress, mas at last got play which ought to show
all her strong points. II is from the French; is
called "a Wonderful Woman" and in the chief
scene Miss HerndOn fights duel with swords with
the heavy Villain, cieay1ng him down the middle,
OF course.
Fanny Davenport plays In New York next
week. and on Wednesday Will give "FedOra" at the
matinee, so that Bernhardt can see how the play
Is done in the English language and after the
American dramatic school.
Geraldine Timer is said to be In bad health.
Joseph Jefferson, after a loaf ON his Louisiana
plantation, begins bis spring season April 4, at
Fail River Mass.
Wilson Barrett wiz follow Bernhardt at the
New York Star Theater week from Monday,
when it is probable he will present "Hamlet" for
the first time in that city.
A New York newspapers man is said to be
writing drama founded on the Denmead horror,
at New Brunswick, n. j.
1t is said to be among the probabilities that
Lester Wallack will retire from the management
Of the New York house which bears his name,
next year, and be succeeded by his son Arthur,
who grieved his highly respectable and proper
papa some time ago by running OF and getting
married.
-Rumor has it that Marcus Meyer will be
Mrs James Brown POtters manager when She
comes TO this country next year. By the way,
it Is pointed out that England is getting a little
the worst OF 1t in this exchange amateurs
business; for while Mrs. Langtry did not come
stage at least six weeks, Mrs Potter 1nf1cts her.
sell upon the English public with all her unbuSh-
Ing crudeness thick upon her.
james Owen OCOnnors "tragedy company
stranded at Greenville, 8. c., last week, and the
members began suit against the "tragedian who
advertised himself as the successor OF McCullough
Tor the amount OF the railroad fares TO New York
This Is the ninth dramatic company that has gone
10 pieces near Greenvllle this season
-"Ruddygore" was well received in Cincinnati
business is said to already show signs of falling
OF, and IT Is probable the days Of the work there
are numbered.
Both GOunOd and Strauss are said to be at
work on new operas. The latter has found a
hbretto exactly TO his taste, and promises comic
opera to excel everything he has heretofore done
One Chicago dime museum has a congress OF
the redheaded milliners OF that city while another
is attracting crowds with an aggregation OF local
lat people, men, women and babies.
- VIM. Robinson, an American bass singer fs
making hit In concert with Mme Nevada-Palmer
In Italy.
The old Cosmopolitan Hall property, at 41st
street and Broadway, New York, has been leased
by James A. Bailey, formerly of Bailey, Barnum
and Hutchinson, 7. Henry French and Frank W.
Sanger, who intend to build ON it fine new thea
yer, OF which Mr.. Sanger will be manager About
SOOOO Will spent on the building which will
seat 200 people and have roof garden
The production or Verdis 'Othello~ at the
Paris Grand Opera House, cannot be accomplished
until september.
Richard Mansfield has definitely secured the
Madison Square Tneater for the summer season
| OF four months, beginning May 30. He will he
seen In his new play there, 'Dr. JecKyi and MT.
That fine old actor John Gilbert, whose equal
the American stage has not Is seriously ill In New
York. - '0"